Latest Law News
Smithsonian board, including Chief Justice John Roberts, to address museum
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough and board members including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are scheduled to attend Monday. The meeting will be held at 2:30 pm at the Hirshhorn Museum on the National Mall. Roberts is chancellor of the
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:52A
Butler Planning Board approves gas station/convenience store proposal on Route
The proposal, which needed more than a dozen variances for things such as signage heights, buffer widths, and pump island setbacks, was being put forward by applicant Johan Kafil, who was represented by attorney Dave Dixon of the Feeney & Dixon law
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:51A
Play about Prop. 8 Trial to Open on Broadway
There is also a videotape of the actual trial, but it has not been made public. At the start of the trial in January 2010, the US Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote blocked a plan by Walker to stream the video to five other courthouses and possibly air it in
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:50A
Mayor Kleinschmidt to start own law firm
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt speaks at the Peace and Justice Plaza, where four local leaders' names were added to the tribute marker. Even as Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt is running to keep his government job,
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:49A
Husband prefers divorce to life with father-in-law
I told her I'd rather divorce her than have him sponging off me, which he's done plenty of already. We've been married for 14 years and she had a grandpa come live with us, but times were different then. My wife doesn't have a nickel to her name now.
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:49A
Care and share
Their mixed verdict on its constitutional standing has tended to reflect the political leanings of the presidents who appointed them. Most recently, a Pennsylvania judge named by President George W. Bush declared unconstitutional the reform law's
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:48A
Motorcyclist dies in crash with minivan on Mulholland in Topanga
TOPANGA -- A 32-year-old man was killed today in a crash in Topanga, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash was reported at 1:18 pm on Mulholland Highway at Cold Canyon Road, according to the CHP. Joey Jerry Dobbs of Bellflower was
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:45A
Downtown condo enters bankruptcy
Developers of downtown condo project Star Tower, where units that sold for $750000 three years ago and then went for less than $200000 last year, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy recently. Star Creations Development LLC
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:45A
Greece: The troika's fifteen commandments
An email reportedly sent by a general secretary of fiscal policy to ministers and other general secretaries mentions no less than 15 new and immediate measures demanded by the troika, such as layoffs in the wider public sector, including teaching staff
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:45A
Family wants to know cause of fatal crash
Matthew Wayne Dortman died from injuries sustained in a head-on crash on Highway 3 on Saturday. CALGARY — The family of a young man killed in a crash in the Crowsnest Pass say they are
Updated: 09/19/2011 12:44A